Problem regarding creating mailing list
1.While creating a mailing list through command line, the owner of the list creator does get any mail regarding creation of mailisg list . What is the procedure actually to create the mailing list , does the owner requires any privelages .
- While creating mailing list through web interface using http://domain name/mailman/create , it asks for list creater password , We reset the password of admin and list creator password using mmsitepass but the password which is reset is not accepted in the interface .
Is there any procedure to update passwords or any other way to create mailing list
On 7/27/2010 5:27 AM, sandeep kumar wrote:
1.While creating a mailing list through command line, the owner of the list creator does get any mail regarding creation of mailisg list . What is the procedure actually to create the mailing list , does the owner requires any privelages .
If you create a list via bin/newlist, the list owner address should receive an emailed notice provided the '-q' option is not given to newlist, and provided Mailman (mailmanctl and the qrunners) is running.
If the qrunners are not running, the notice will be queued and will be sent when Mailman is started.
The list owner is only an email address. Nothing is required of it other than it be valid. The person running bin/newlist itself must be either root or a member of Mailman's group.
- While creating mailing list through web interface using http://domain name/mailman/create , it asks for list creater password , We reset the password of admin and list creator password using mmsitepass but the password which is reset is not accepted in the interface .
What is the exact error? Are you certain you are giving the creator password or site admin password exactly as set by mmsitepass?
Is there any procedure to update passwords or any other way to create mailing list
Lists are created either via the web create or bin/newlist.
The site admin and/or list creator passwords are set/changed with bin/mmsitepass.
List admin and moderator passwords can be set/changed via the list's web admin interface. List admin passwords can also be changed via bin/change_pw.
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 05:57:13PM +0530, sandeep kumar wrote:
does the owner requires any privelages .
You'll need to be able to write to the appropriate directories, and probably have a sane umask.
(In my case, I interact with Mailman from a user account which is a member of the 'list' or 'mailman' groups (so I don't need to su), and has a umask of 0002. YMMV.)
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